Monthly Archives: June 2012

A/Professor Adam Brigman, Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching, Faculty of Science University of Sydney Adopted a social media approach that sent all of their announcements via RSS to Twitter, Facebook, etc Reduced Absent Fails by about 40% by adopting … Continue reading →

Massive Open Online Courses are a response to the challenges faced by organisations and distributed disciplines, whereby thousands of people from around the world confluence in one unified learning experience (Cormier, 2010). MOOCs are based on principles stemming from Connectivist … Continue reading →

Some selected notes…. Neuman, W. L. (2006). Social Research Methods – Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (6th Edition). Boston: Pearson Education. p460: “Qualitative resaearchers form new concepts ore refine existing concepts that are grounded in the data.” p460: “A researcher organises … Continue reading →

“Marcus Messner and Jeff South and Learning with Social Media at VCU  – Teaching, Learning and Technology” – Virginia Commonwealth University Centre for Teaching Excellence. [Available on iTunes] Ran a course that combined US and Iraqi students to create a … Continue reading →

This presentation is available from iTunesU as part of the “As We May Teach: Educational Technology, From Theory Into Practice” series by Dr. Ruben Puentedura (http://itunes.apple.com/au/itunes-u/as-we-may-teach-educational/id380294705). It provides an overview of the TPCK model and also discusses Puentudura’s SAMR model. … Continue reading →

Some interesting educational technology reference materials from iTunes: Views of educational technology 2012, Gary Ackerman (free) Tap the screen: Technology interaction in our students’ lives, Matt Fuller (free) Technology how to, Jeol Dietz, (free) Understanding technology integration to prepare millennial … Continue reading →

Rob Manson – BuildAR for Geolocation AR Need a copy of LayAR on your mobile device to detect. Can have triggers based on proximity, for instance start playing a sound. In LayAR once you have a dev account you can … Continue reading →

Notes from Rob Manson presentation: Rob Manson is an AR expert at the Inspire Institute at UoCanberra. See http://mob-labs.com Azuma’s definitions of AR (spectrum I used in my blended reality paper) Billinghurst released the first ARToolkit released in 1999 FLARToolkit … Continue reading →